Intellimali could appear in Parliament over R14 million deposit into student's account

Aug 31, 2017

The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training, Connie September, on Thursday said that the Committee needs to be briefed about the erroneous payment of R14 million to a student at the Walter Sisulu University in East London.

“It can only serve to benefit Members of the Committee to be brought up to speed on how such a dubious act occurred and why it took this long to be identified. The Committee wants to know the number of students, who could have benefitted from this money,” September said.

“This is unacceptable that such a grave mistake as this one could occur undetected on money appropriated by Parliament, and disbursed by various entities including the Department right down to the level of ending up in a private account.”

She said the Committee accepts that this is not the fault of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), but still companies that NSFAS use to distribute funding should be of unquestionable capacity with efficiency all round.